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allocating files with indirect blocks (was: choosing the file system block size)

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Subject: allocating files with indirect blocks (was: choosing the file system block size)
From: Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:35:54 +0200

> For files large enough to need indirect blocks,
> (a) the size is rounded up to the block size, not the frag size
Why is that so?

I've tried to find something in the 4.4BSD Book I last read years ago
(when I implemented the client-side NFS locking), but couldn't find
anything about it.

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